Analysis of I know lives, I could miss
Emily Dickinson 1830 (Amherst) – 1886 (Amherst)
I know lives, I could miss
Without a Misery—
Others—whose instant's wanting—
Would be Eternity—
The last—a scanty Number—
'Twould scarcely fill a Two—
The first—a Gnat's Horizon
Could easily outgrow—
| Scheme | XAXA XXXX |
|---|---|
| Poetic Form | Quatrain (50%) |
| Metre | 111111 010100 101110 110100 0101010 110101 0101010 11001 |
| Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
| Characters | 218 |
| Words | 33 |
| Sentences | 1 |
| Stanzas | 2 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4 |
| Lines Amount | 8 |
| Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
| Words per line (avg) | 4 |
| Letters per stanza (avg) | 78 |
| Words per stanza (avg) | 16 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 03, 2023
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